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Native · 1780

Ojibwe on Bird's War Road

In Capt. Henry Bird's British invasion of Kentucky in June 1780, roughly a hundred Odawa and Ojibwe (Chippewa) warriors left Detroit with Bird's guns before hundreds of Shawnee joined on the Great Miami.

The combined force took Ruddle's and Martin's Stations on the Licking with artillery—the deepest British-and-Indigenous strike into the Kentucky settlements that summer—and marched hundreds of captives toward Detroit.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Ojibwe on Bird's War Road." Kentucky History Drive. Published September 20, 2026. Last revised September 20, 2026. https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/ojibwe-on-birds-war-road/.

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Snowden, Shannon. "Ojibwe on Bird's War Road." Kentucky History Drive, published 20 Sept. 2026, last revised 20 Sept. 2026, https://kyhistorydrive.com/stories/ojibwe-on-birds-war-road/.

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